Monthly Archives: September 2015

We are so used to our surroundings that we do not appear to notice that the equity market has gradually lost its original function and turned into a non-scientific and highly unnatural bogus arrangement. It is of benefit only to the parasites being advisors and calling themselves “the market”. I confess to being a low-life parasite.

At the outset, entrepreneurs met investors in one-off arrangements. This worked well when a voyage to east India was being financed but it becomes unsuitable for long-term ventures like an on-going enterprise. The equity markets turned into stock exchanges and is now a digital and global animal. Along the way, the markets switched its focus from financing to the trading of shares in large companies, entities that does not need financing.

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All societies have their own specific culture and moral standing. In Sweden there is a terrible mill culture (Bruksmentalitet in Swedish). Corporates have their own morals and culture as well; usually relating back to the original entrepreneur.

When great entrepreneurial companies grow, they hire legal staff and build a HR-department and this is the tipping point; this is where the adaptability stops.

Today the IKEA founder (a young look-alike, think-alike) Ingvar Kamprad would not be hired by IKEA. The reason is simple: He is a free thinker. He does not fit in.

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Putting complicated matters in a numerical environment makes it easier to deal with. There is safety in numbers and although it feels really good you end up being making stupid decisions most of the time.

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Our knowledge about the workings of the human mind has taken a gigantic leap forward over the last few decades. There is a growing body of evidence piling up, suggesting something that most of you will probably already know; human beings are not at all as rational as they would like to be.